"Rebarrel Rem 700"

If you're going to finish it yourself, they give you a pretty good starting point. If a gunsmith is going to finish it, it could actually cost you more. The barrel maker is going to charge you to short chamber it, then the gunsmith is going to have to go through the process of getting it set up and finish chambering it, so it does not really save him any time.

I haven't tried a shallow chamber but I have had one deep chambered, but It still cost me about the same to have it installed because most of the cost is the labor involved in setting the barrel up in the lathe to do any of the work.

If it's a standard barrel swap, with the factory threads and you have the replacement barrel threaded, and plan on using a hand reamer to finish the chamber, a shallow chamber might save you a little.

Personally, I prefer to have the action blue printed and custom chambers on 700's so the all the work has to be by the gunsmith doing the work

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